Examples of 'asteroid' in a sentence

Meaning of "asteroid"

Asteroid: A small rocky body that orbits the sun, usually found in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
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  • A naturally occurring solid object, which is smaller than a planet, larger than a meteoroid and not a comet, that orbits a star and often has an irregular shape.
  • In the Solar system, such a body that orbits within the orbit of Jupiter
  • Any member of the taxonomic class Asteroidea; a starfish.

How to use "asteroid" in a sentence

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Asteroid composition is measured by radar and seismometry.
Baptistina is an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt.
Asteroid debris does not move like that.
Bürgi is an asteroid from the asteroid belt.
I bartered for the coordinates to this asteroid.
That asteroid dead ahead is a mountain of tylium.
We should reach the asteroid in a few minutes.
No asteroid storm or exploding supernova can stop me.
On the large asteroid near our ships.
It all started when a giant asteroid hit.
An asteroid storm blew us right off course.
We have just cleared the asteroid belt.
Balam is an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt.
I head up the program to calculate asteroid vectors.
Palermo is an asteroid from the asteroid belt.

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All that remains is this asteroid field.
Dora is an asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt.
So their fire hits the asteroid instead.
Put the asteroid on the main viewscreen.
We have been en route to the asteroid for hours.
Tacitus is an asteroid from the asteroid belt.
You are not actually going into an asteroid field.
I discovered on the asteroid the traces of intelligent life.
I remember the last time we were in an asteroid storm.
The asteroid is mostly iron ore.
Then you have the asteroid belt.
And the asteroid will be ours.
Two dozen or so moons and an asteroid belt.
It is the only asteroid visible to the naked eye.
Global warming or an encounter with a killer asteroid.
My ship charted a large asteroid approaching your planet.
We go on about our lives like there is no asteroid.
They put an asteroid deflector there.
The prey is heading for an asteroid belt.
An asteroid storm is approaching the ship on collision course.
These little green peaks are asteroid collisions.
Asteroid mining was an alternative source of materials.
We have visual contact with the asteroid.
There is an asteroid field directly ahead.
Shuttlecraft has been damaged and is landing on asteroid ahead.
Toggle display of asteroid name labels.
The asteroid field is unusually dense.
Magnitude of faintest asteroid labeled on map.
The asteroid appears to be reversing course.
Superman there are hydrogen pockets inside that asteroid.
Huenna is a large asteroid orbiting in the asteroid belt.
They have gone behind the asteroid.
Tama is an asteroid orbiting the sun.
The star and the asteroid.
Eros is the first asteroid to be landed upon by a spacecraft.

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